TARGET AUDIENCE: Nurses and other health care professionals.

PROGRAM GOAL: This educational activity will serve as a primer on emergency preparedness concepts for nurses and other hospital and pre-hospital personnel.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
At the completion of this program, the participant should be better able to:

• Describe the phases of emergency management and their importance to hospital preparedness regulations.
• Explain the triage procedure and categories.
• Compare mental health concerns in disaster from those of everyday practice and patient care.
• Explore at least two important concepts in the hospital response to a contaminated patient.
• Define important actions in caring for a patient with a highly dangerous, infectious illness.
• Illustrate the need for incident specific types of personal protective equipment when dealing with chemical, biological, or radiological events.
• Review the role of public health in determining the need for biocontainment care for a patient.
• List organizations for involvement in emergency preparedness.

To complete this activity for Continuing Education credit, please follow these two steps:

CONTINUING EDUCATION ACTIVITY: View program announcement

EVALUATION, POST-TEST AND CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION:

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There is a $10 fee to view this activity and receive continuing education credit. Log In If you have an account with the UNMC College of Nursing, Continuing Nursing Education online evaluation site, please log in to submit payment, view presentation, take the evaluation and post test and to generate your certificate of completion. New User? If you do not have an account, please click here to set one up free of charge. Once you can completed an account, you will be directed to the main menu. Please select program #10CE038. You will be redirected back to this page.

PROGRAM EXPIRATION:
Participants completing this program online will be able to receive credit through March 21, 2012. For questions, please e-mail concne@unmc.edu.

ACCREDITATION STATEMENT:
The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing Continuing Nursing Education is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
This activity is provided for 1.0 contact hour under ANCC criteria. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #13699 for 1.2 contact hours.